Experimental comparison between speech transmission index, rapid speech transmission index, and speech intelligibility index

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1106-1117

  Larm, Petra ^a   Hongisto, Valtteri ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROOM ACOUSTICS SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX (RASTI); SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX (SII); SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX (STI); SPEECH-TO-NOISE RATIO;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; LOUDSPEAKERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; MEASUREMENT; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 31744448838     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2146112     Document Type: Article

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